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CLEAR Airport Kiosk – Update on TSA and Idemia

CLEAR Airport Kiosks

CLEAR Airport Kiosk News We recently did a writeup on some news from Biometric Update: The battle for TSA and airports seems to have taken a new turn.  Just when we were settling into fast and speedy airline check-in thanks to IRIS biometrics, one of the players is “complicating” the situation. A recent post on Biometric Update (thanks Michael!) came up… Read More »

Airport touchscreen kiosk provides info on sister cities

A gathering of city, business and airport officials was proof the Sister City initiative remains active in the Summit City. A Friday event … Source: www.journalgazette.net A Friday event at Fort Wayne International Airport unveiled a touch-screen kiosk that provides travelers and others information about Takaoka, Japan; Gera, Germany; Plock, Poland; and Taizhou, China.A Friday event at Fort… Read More »

NCR Latest Technology Solutions for Airports

NCR’s TP100 airport check-in kiosk that can run a variety of software, allowing passengers to check-in, change seats, add/update frequent flyer information, check in bags and more. Source: www.marketwatch.com “From check-in to shopping to boarding, NCR is making travel easier by helping airports and airlines around the world enhance the passenger experience, drive more ancillary revenue through all channels of… Read More »

Download Kiosk – Movies In 3 Minutes At Digiboo Airport Kiosks

These clever kiosks are popping up in airports all over America. They offer movie rental downloads in less than three minutes, allowing you to watch on the plane without need for an Internet connection.

Source: www.techtimes.com

Fast Company says that Digiboo’s kiosks are able to do such fast downloads thanks to Wi-Fi router that works “significantly faster than most Internet networks provided by airports.” The file size for an average movie is between 1 and 1.5 gigabytes. Digiboo super-fast routers will transfer 1.3 gigabytes in less than three minutes.

Many airports in the midwest already have Digiboo kiosks, with the company expecting to place 2,000 of them before the end of 2016. The Digiboo app is available for iOS, Android and Windows devices.

APC Kiosk Deployment September Update

Latest numbers from firms on numbers. According the January 2015 count, there are 903 operational APC kiosks located in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Dublin, Ireland and Abu Dhabi with another 189 targeted to go live by Spring 2015. This is up from just 280 in February 2014 and will bring the total number of APC Kiosks… Read More »

SITA provides 100 automated kiosks to three airports in Mexico

IT and telecommunication provider SITA has supplied 100 of its automated border control kiosks for installation in three major international…Rea

Source: www.airport-technology.com

Travellers from up to five SITA kiosks can be managed from just one immigration counter. The kiosks have reportedly reduced the time passengers spend in queues by as much as 40%.

Mexico Ministry of Communications and Transportation secretary general Gerardo Ruiz Esparza said: “The installation of these kiosks represents another example of the implementation of state-of-the-art technology in Mexico, aimed at preserving the safety of people and their goods, as well as facilitating activities related to aviation.

“Automating the entry of domestic and foreign passengers who do not require a visa is achieved by capturing biometric data (fingerprints, photography and scanning of the passport), which quadruples the capacity of passenger attention for each migration agent.”